I have a form in WinForm application. In this form I placed a split container (vertical). In the lower panel I placed another split container (horizontal). The right one has two pannels, one has the BorderStyle set to FixedSingle and the other None. It looks like this:
I want it to look like this (as if the panel was part of the border of the split container):
Is there any easy way to accomplish this using different controls?
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I am working on a WPF panel derivative with custom layout logic and sometimes it might be that component should be visible in two places, when following that layouting logic. Both instances of the same component will be partially cropped. Is it possible to do this - lay out a child component in two different places during the arrange pass?
I think that the panels behaviors are for arrange items in a view, and not for copy the items. I think this is not possible. If you copy a visual element then it will not be the same. If you want get this effect you may use a VisualBrush and paint some region with that, and set to the brush the control that you may want to copy. Using VisualBursh you will see a control copy, but you will not be able to modify it. The other way is using a custom control for making this effect. Other way could be using two different custom panels, both with the same items source (in the case that be the ItemsPanel for some collection).
Hope this answer helps to you...
How can I add a control into two different containers at the same time?
For example: I have TabPage1, TabPage2 and a textbox control. I want the textbox be added into both TabPage1 and TabPage2 at the same time.
I believe that it's not possible to have a control in two containers at the same time. A simple workaround, which works most of the time (especially in case of tab control), is to move the control from one container to the other when the other container becomes visible (for example when the user switches tab pages).
I want to change the view inside stackpanel based on what user clicks from the menubar. What's the best practice to implement this?
There is no exact equivalent, but same functionality can be achieved with several containers from WPF:
with a Grid (putting all the controls inside the Grid without specifying a row or column for them and implementing a mechanism wich only allows once child to be visible at any time)
with a Custom Control derived from Panel and a Property specifying which is the active (visible) child from its children, etc.
Sounds like you could use a TabControl with the Header set to nothing
I'm converting an app from ASP.NET WebForms to WinForms. There is one asp.net page which contains a ListView/Repeater that contains several custom controls, which in turn contain a ListView with other custom controls. Basically the layout looks like a TreeView, but on each node/leaf there are few controls like comboboxes, etc.
When this is in ASP.NET, the page automatically lays itself out, so it is several screens tall - if I add 20 buttons into a Panel, it will grow and the browser will get scrollbars.
I'd like to do the same thing in a WinForms application - so I'll have a user control that will contain a lot of controls in a some variation of Panel (Flow, Table layout), and the controls might have another controls inside them, etc.
The problem is, that when I make winforms app, each control has specific height in the design time. I'd like some user controls to be able to grow with their contents - so they'll add up. In the main Form, there should be a vertical scrollbar, just like in the web browser when the generated page is taller than the screen.
I'd just like to get some general pointers in the right direction. Thanks.
Use Anchor and Dock container properties.
Yes, to expound on Anchor and Dock...try this
-Place a Panel on an empty form, and set its dock property to Top
-place a textbox in the panel, and Dock it to Full...it should fill the whole top panel
-Place a splitter on the form, and if not already docked correctly, set its dock to top
-place another panel below the splitter, and set its Dock to Fill
-place another textbox inside the lower panel and fill it as as well
Now you have a form with two resiable textboxes and will resize when the form does.
*you may have to set the textbox MultiLine property to true but not sure.
Hope this helps.
Anchor the controls to the parent. Anchoring all four sides will cause it to stretch.
If the Anchoring and Docking answers don't work for you, there is another option. It's not pretty, but you can access a control's properties and change them dynamically during runtime. You'd do something like: if(listBox.Items.Count > [yourVal]) listBox.height = [yourFormula] or something.
It's been a while since I've done a Win Form (and I don't have my IDE fired up at the moment) but I'm pretty sure there's even a ScrollPanel or other scrolling control that you can set on your form.
That said, when you're working with WinForms, the less scrolling you can make your users do, the better.
I have a silverlight control that has a few element such as: Image, TextBox and a TextBlock.
The application shows a list of the same control and the controls are placed in a specific layout, in grid with rows and cols.
Now,
I would like to be able to modify all the controls layout and arrange the element differently (preferred animatedly) without reloading the control.
Does anyone know how to do so?
Thanks,
Ronny
Use the States pane in
Expression Blend 3 to define different
layouts.
Use the GoToStateAction for the objects/events that you want to trigger the change or call VisualStateManager:GoToState(this, "NewState", true) from your code behind to switch layouts.
Use FluidLayout (the wave-shaped first button first for the State Group) to animate the change from one grid col/row to another.